Palm Sunday: the Entrance of our Lord into Jerusalem The Saturday of Lazarus, from the liturgical point of view, is the pre-feast of Palm Sunday — the Entrance of our Lord into Jerusalem. Both feasts have a common theme: triumph and victory. Saturday reveals the Enemy, which is death; Palm Sunday announces the meaning of […]
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Saturday of Lazarus: The Beginning of the Cross
Saturday of Lazarus: The Beginning of the Cross – Fr. Alexander Schmemann “Having fulfilled the Forty Days… we ask to see the Holy Week of Thy passion.” With these words sung at Vespers of Palm Friday, Lent comes to its end and we enter into the annual commemoration of Christ’s suffering, death and resurrection. It […]
Humility: Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee
Humility: Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee – Fr. Alexander Schmemann The next Sunday [after Zaccheus Sunday] is called the “Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee.” On the eve of this day, on Saturday at Vespers, the liturgical book of the Lenten season– the Triodion— makes its first appearance, and texts from it are added to the […]